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America’s Retreat and the Agony of Aleppo

by Jessica Purkiss | Aug 29, 2016 | Opinion

Sarajevo and Aleppo, two cities once part of the Ottoman Empire, two cities whose diverse populations have included Muslims and Christians and Jews, two cities rich in culture that have been besieged and split in two and ravaged by violence, two cities where children...

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A Palestinian woman flees her house following what witnesses said was a nearby air strike on an apartment in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip August 10, 2014. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

Palestinian families divided by Israeli policy as war rages

by Jessica Purkiss | Aug 10, 2014 | Features

Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat—In the latest conflict in Gaza, the death toll has reached almost 1,900 as Israeli airstrikes resumed following the end of a 72-hour truce on Friday morning. Every day, Hekmat Bsaiso waits by her phone in her home in the West Bank city of...

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A wounded Palestinian boy, who hospital officials said was injured in an Israeli air strike, is wheeled into a hospital in Gaza City on July 12, 2014. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

Gaza hospitals struggling to cope under Israeli assault

by Jessica Purkiss | Jul 14, 2014 | Features

Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat—As the Israeli military continued its latest offensive against Gaza for the seventh day on Monday, the territory’s hospitals are struggling to cope with the influx of dead and wounded and are desperately seeking new supplies of vital drugs...